Because the Internet

Because the Internet is the second studio album by Childish Gambino, released in December 2013 on Glassnote Records and produced by Ludwig Göransson and Donald Glover. The album was a sprawling, multimedia concept project accompanied by a screenplay that provided narrative context for the record, blurring the lines between music, film, and literature in ways that anticipated Beyoncé's Lemonade. The production drew from cloud rap, chopped-and-screwed hip-hop, neo-soul, and experimental electronic music to create a dense sonic world that perfectly captured the alienated, ironic, and occasionally terrifying emotional landscape of digital-era young adulthood. 'Sweatpants,' '3005,' and 'Telegraph Ave' became fan favorites that demonstrated Glover's extraordinary range as a songwriter. Because the Internet is one of the most ambitious and prescient hip-hop albums of the 2010s.